Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-07
e. MISCELLANY.

Born in Butte, September q. to the wife
ofC. M. Joyce, q daughter.
The First Montana Rifles meet a. nan
mast Q This afternoon in Turner Hall, TO
receive their new uniforms.
The School Board meets this evening TO
wind up business previous to the com.
mencement of the school session ne4'
Monday.
The officers arrested q man in q board
ing house on West Broadway yesterday for
f%ourishing q revolver with deadly intent TO
some residents Of the house.
The owners of property in the neighbor-
hood complain of the absence OF q sloe'
walk on the east side OF Utah street be-
tween Granite and the alley.
Mrs. Helen C. Harper was yesterday ap-
pointed Administrative of the estate OF her
mother, Mrs. Fannie Pack, and Ada Mad
dux, of the estate of 2. q. Maddux.
A miner at the Gagnon named W. o.
Chine had his left eve severely injured on
Thursday afternoon by a small piece OF
ore flying from the hammer while sledging
up.
All Eastern mail for the past few days
has zone over the Union Pacific on account
of the distractions on the Northern Pacific
which are now removed, leaving the road
clear.
Operations were resumed yesterday at
the Alice, the repairs to the mill spoken OF
j.. yesterdays MINER having been finished.
Both mine and mill are running to their
full capacity.
The nails in the sidewalks in a good
many parts of town are q stumblingblock
and an occasion of profanity to many a
weary pilgrim, especially on the west side
OF Main below Park.
A stranger was struck with paralysis in
Basip on Saturday afternoon. No one
knew his name or where he belonged. He
was taken down to the Boulder Warm
Springs the same evening.
The passengers from the Northern Pacific
through trains delayed by floods in the
Yellowstone country, destined for Butte,
will arrive here this morning, all in one Sec
ton of the Montana Union.
Agood deal OF sympathy was yesterday
expressed by several people who Witnessed
it for Professor True's arrest on Saturday
night. The issue in the case in the Police
Court this morning will be watched with
interest.
Colonel Bradshaw has been doing g. land
Office busi' ess in hats. He won five at the
races here and in Helena, and is SO sur
feited with the best that Babcock has in
stock that he had To desist after he had &C.
lected three.
There were six cases of disturbance, or
drunk and d~isorderly, in the Police Court
yesterday. the offenders being sinched in
amounts varying from 81 to IS and costs.
Three pungled and the other three went
down stairs to the Hotel Weinecke.
Patsy Clark, accompanied by John For
Bis. left last evening for Murray, Idaho, to
obtain part of the deeds to the Poorman
100000 I'LL - I-Il - ----- L. L
bank there. The transfer of the property
to the new corporation will be completed
on his return.
John W. Storer has his headquarters at
the Butte Furniture Company's store
on Broadway near Montana, where he can
be found. He has just arrived from Cali
fOrDia and will engage in the business of
embalming and undertaking.. See adver-
tisement elsewhere.
The Congdon-Newill geyser party re-
turned to South Butte yesterday after
their outing looking as brown as berries.
They had a splendid time and the wicked
spirits OF the party got off some rare old
chestnuts upon the innocents, all OF which
wiil be duly 1hronicled by our veracious
South Butte reporter.
The police last night arrested Professor
True, who had persistentlv continued his
street sales of medicine after being warned
by the police that he was violating a Terri
torial law against street fakirs. It is al
legged that his license does not give him the
privilege to vend medicines upon the street.
He was liberated on bond to appear in the
Police Court Monday morning.
Mike Donahue, an old, well-known miner,
interested in some very extensive mines on
the Boulder, dropped dead about 1870
yesterday morning on the street in Basin.
He had just motioned to a man named
Joe Brien to come to him and fell over and
dropped dead in his arms just as he cam
up. He was about SO years OF age and has
been in the Territory for years. He left
very fine properties that may yet
prove very valuable.
Mr.. George H. Morris, who vent to San
Francisco for a pleasure trip. is now lying
in q very criticalconGition with the dropsy
and is attended by two of the most promi-
nent physicians of San Francisco. They
performed the painful operation of tapping
him recently and took five gallons of water
from his abdomen. A large quantity still
TO be removed from the lower
limbs by artificial means and his recovery |
is very doubtful.